Knowledge of diabetic retinopathy

With the extension of human life and living standards, diabetic retinopathy (dabetic retinopathy, DR) in patients with cataract in clinical practice is increasing year by year. Two diseases in the elderly are prone, and development and promote each other. Because of our lack of universal health knowledge, a considerable number of diabetic patients pay no attention to the prevention and treatment of diabetic eye disease. Not a good long-term control of diabetes, caused by late treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (proliferative diabetic retinopathy, PDR).

PDR is a vision of diabetes threaten the most serious complications, it is important to one of the blinding eye disease. Early detection early prevention is the key to effective control of blood glucose, blood pressure, blood lipids, it is possible to prevent or delay the occurrence of diabetic retinopathy. When the non-proliferative lesions, the use of traditional Chinese and western medicine can effectively control the progress of complications. Enter the proliferative phase of DR will be vitreous hemorrhage, neovascularization, traction retinal detachment, persistent exudative complications such as macular edema. Vitrectomy surgery treatment is so far the only effective way of PDR. PDR for patients with cataract traditional approach is vitrectomy and cataract surgery carried out in stages. As the cataract and vitreous surgery, as well as the continuous development of step-by-step the issue of the constant exposure to surgery, the current application of more and more people phacoemulsification, pars plana of the ciliary body by vitrectomy and intraocular lens implantation combined with surgical treatment PDR with cataract, and have achieved very good results. So that the vast majority of diabetics from blindness, the premise that knowledge of disease, and doctors to communicate timely treatment to prevent the occurrence of diabetic retinopathy.